Internet Protocols: Protocol Functions & Network Communication

1. William StallingsData and Computer Communications7th Edition Chapter 18 InternetProtocols

2. Protocol Functions • Small set of functions that form basis of all protocols • Not all protocols have all functions • Reduce duplication of effort • May have same type of function in protocols at different levels • Encapsulation • Fragmentation and reassembly • Connection control • Ordered delivery • Flow control • Error control • Addressing • Multiplexing • Transmission services

3. Encapsulation • Data usually transferred in blocks • Protocol data units (PDUs) • Each PDU contains data and control information • Some PDUs only control • Three categories of control • Address • Of sender and/or receiver • Error-detecting code • E.g. frame check sequence • Protocol control • Additional information to implement protocol functions • Addition of control information to data is encapsulation • Data accepted or generated by entity and encapsulated into PDU • Containing data plus control information • e.g. TFTP, HDLC, frame relay, ATM, AAL5 (Figure 11.15), LLC, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.11

4. Fragmentation and Reassembly(Segmentation – OSI) • Exchange data between two entities • Characterized as sequence of PDUs of some bounded size • Application level message • Lower-level protocols may need to break data up into smaller blocks • Communications network may only accept blocks of up to a certain size • ATM 53 octets • Ethernet 1526 octets • More efficient error control • Smallerretransmission • Fairer • Prevent station monopolizing medium • Smaller buffers • Provision of checkpoint and restart/recovery operations

5. Disadvantages of Fragmentation • Make PDUs as large as possible because •  PDU contains some control information • Smaller block, larger overhead • PDU arrival generates interrupt • Smaller blocks, more interrupts • More time processing smaller, more numerous PDUs

6. Reassembly • Segmented data must be reassembled into messages • More complex if PDUs out of order

7. PDUS and Fragmentation(Copied from chapter 2 fig 2.4)

8. Connection Control • Connectionless data transfer • Each PDU treated independently • E.g. datagram • Connection-oriented data transfer • E.g. virtual circuit • Connection-oriented preferred (even required) for lengthy exchange of data • Or if protocol details must be worked out dynamically • Logical association, or connection, established between entities • Three phases occur  • Connection establishment • Data transfer • Connection termination • May be interrupt and recovery phases to handle errors

9. Phases of Connection Oriented Transfer

10. Connection Establishment • Entitiesagree to exchange data • Typically, one station issues connection request • In connectionless fashion • May involve central authority • Receiving entity accepts or rejects (simple) • May include negotiation • Syntax, semantics, and timing • Both entities must use same protocol • May allow optional features • Must be agreed • E.g. protocol may specify max PDU size 8000 octets; one station may wish to restrict to 1000 octets

11. Data Transfer and Termination • Both data and control information exchanged • e.g. flow control, error control • Data flow and acknowledgements may be in one or both directions • One side may send termination request • Or central authority might terminate

12. Sequencing • Many connection-oriented protocols use sequencing • e.g. HDLC, IEEE 802.11 • PDUs numbered sequentially • Each side keeps track of outgoing and incoming numbers • Supports three main functions • Ordered delivery • Flow control • Error control • Not found in all connection-oriented protocols • E.g.frame relay and ATM • All connection-oriented protocols include some way of identifying connection • Unique connection identifier • Combination of source and destination addresses

13. Ordered Delivery • PDUs may arrive out of order • Different paths through network • PDU order must be maintained • Number PDUs sequentially • Easy to reorder received PDUs • Finitesequence number field • Numbers repeat modulo maximum number • Maximum sequence number greater than maximum number of PDUs that could be outstanding • In fact, maximum number may need to be twice maximum number of PDUs that could be outstanding • e.g. selective-repeat ARQ

14. Flow Control • Performedby receiving entity to limit amount or rate of data sent • Stop-and-wait • Each PDU must be acknowledged before next sent • Credit • Amount of data that can be sent without acknowledgment • E.g. HDLC sliding-window • Must be implemented in several protocols • Network traffic control • Buffer space • Application overflow • E.g. waiting for disk access

15. Error Control • Guard against loss or damage • Error detection and retransmission • Sender inserts error-detecting code in PDU • Function of other bits in PDU • Receiver checks code on incoming PDU • If error, discard • If transmitter doesn’t get acknowledgment in reasonable time, retransmit • Error-correction code • Enables receiver to detect and possibly correct errors • Error control is performed at various layers of protocol • Between station and network • Inside network

16. Addressing • Addressing level • Addressing scope • Connection identifiers • Addressing mode

17. TCP/IP Concepts

18. Addressing Level • Level in comms architecture at which entity is named • Unique address for each end system • e.g. workstation or server • And each intermediate system • (e.g., router) • Network-level address • IP address or internet address • OSI - network service access point (NSAP) • Used to route PDU through network • At destination data must routed to some process • Each process assigned an identifier • TCP/IP port • Service access point (SAP) in OSI

19. Addressing Scope • Global address • Global nonambiguity • Identifies unique system • Synonyms permitted • System may have more than one global address • Global applicability • Possible at any global address to identify any other global address, in any system, by means of global address of other system • Enables internet to route data between any two systems • Need unique address for each device interface on network • MAC address on IEEE 802 network and ATM host address • Enablesnetwork to route data units through network and deliver to intended system • Network attachment point address • Addressing scope only relevant for network-level addresses • Port or SAP above network level is unique within system • Need not be globally unique • E.g port 80 web server listening port in TCP/IP

20. Connection Identifiers • Entity 1 on system A requests connection to entity 2 on system B, using global address B.2. • B.2 accepts connection • Connection identifier used by both entities for future transmissions • Reduced overhead • Generally shorter than global identifiers • Routing • Fixed route may be defined • Connection identifier identifies route to intermediate systems • Multiplexing • Entity may wish more than one connection simultaneously • PDUs must be identified by connection identifier • Use of state information • Once connection established, end systems can maintain state information about connection • Flow and error control using sequence numbers

21. Addressing Mode • Usually address refers to single system or port • Individual or unicast address • Address can refer to more than one entity or port • Multiple simultaneous recipients for data • Broadcast for all entities within domain • Multicast for specific subset of entities

22. Multiplexing • Multiple connections into single system • E.g. frame relay, can have multiple data link connections terminating in single end system • Connections multiplexed over single physical interface • Can also be accomplished via port names • Also permit multiple simultaneous connections • E.g. multiple TCP connections to given system • Each connection on different pair of ports

23. Multiplexing Between Levels • Upward or inward multiplexing • Multiple higher-level connections share single lower-level connection • More efficient use of lower-level service • Provides several higher-level connections where only single lower-level connection exists • Downward multiplexing, or splitting • Higher-level connection built on top of multiple lower-level connections • Traffic on higher connection divided among lower connections • Reliability, performance, or efficiency.

24. Transmission Services • Protocol may provide additional services to entities • E.g.: • Priority • Connection basis • On message basis • E.g. terminate-connection request • Quality of service • E.g. minimum throughput or maximum delay threshold • Security • Security mechanisms, restricting access • These services depend on underlying transmission system and lower-level entities

25. Internetworking Terms (1) • Communications Network • Facility that provides data transfer service • An internet • Collection of communications networks interconnected by bridges and/or routers • The Internet - note upper case I • The global collection of thousands of individual machines and networks • Intranet • Corporate internet operating within the organization • Uses Internet (TCP/IP and http)technology to deliver documents and resources

26. Internetworking Terms (2) • End System (ES) • Device attached to one of the networks of an internet • Supports end-user applications or services • Intermediate System (IS) • Device used to connect two networks • Permits communication between end systems attached to different networks

27. Internetworking Terms (3) • Bridge • IS used to connect two LANs using similar LAN protocols • Address filter passing on packets to the required network only • OSI layer 2 (Data Link) • Router • Connects two (possibly dissimilar) networks • Uses internet protocol present in each router and end system • OSI Layer 3 (Network)

28. Requirements of Internetworking • Link between networks • Minimum physical and link layer • Routing and delivery of data between processes on different networks • Accounting services and status info • Independent of network architectures

29. Network Architecture Features • Addressing • Packet size • Access mechanism • Timeouts • Error recovery • Status reporting • Routing • User access control • Connection based or connectionless

30. Architectural Approaches • Connection oriented • Connectionless

31. Connection Oriented • Assume that each network is connection oriented • IS connect two or more networks • IS appear as ES to each network • Logical connection set up between ESs • Concatenation of logical connections across networks • Individual network virtual circuits joined by IS • May require enhancement of local network services • 802, FDDI are datagram services

32. Connection Oriented IS Functions • Relaying • Routing • e.g. X.75 used to interconnect X.25 packet switched networks • Connection oriented not often used • (IP dominant)

33. Connectionless Operation • Corresponds to datagram mechanism in packet switched network • Each NPDU treated separately • Network layer protocol common to all DTEs and routers • Known generically as the internet protocol • Internet Protocol • One such internet protocol developed for ARPANET • RFC 791 (Get it and study it) • Lower layer protocol needed to access particular network

34. Connectionless Internetworking • Advantages • Flexibility • Robust • No unnecessary overhead • Unreliable • Not guaranteed delivery • Not guaranteed order of delivery • Packets can take different routes • Reliability is responsibility of next layer up (e.g. TCP)

35. IP Operation

36. Design Issues • Routing • Datagram lifetime • Fragmentation and re-assembly • Error control • Flow control

37. The Internet as a Network

38. Routing • End systems and routers maintain routing tables • Indicate next router to which datagram should be sent • Static • May contain alternative routes • Dynamic • Flexible response to congestion and errors • Source routing • Source specifies route as sequential list of routers to be followed • Security • Priority • Route recording

39. Datagram Lifetime • Datagrams could loop indefinitely • Consumes resources • Transport protocol may need upper bound on datagram life • Datagram marked with lifetime • Time To Live field in IP • Once lifetime expires, datagram discarded (not forwarded) • Hop count • Decrement time to live on passing through a each router • Time count • Need to know how long since last router • (Aside: compare with Logan’s Run)

40. Fragmentation and Re-assembly • Different packet sizes • When to re-assemble • At destination • Results in packets getting smaller as data traverses internet • Intermediate re-assembly • Need large buffers at routers • Buffers may fill with fragments • All fragments must go through same router • Inhibits dynamic routing

41. IP Fragmentation (1) • IP re-assembles at destination only • Uses fields in header • Data Unit Identifier (ID) • Identifies end system originated datagram • Source and destination address • Protocol layer generating data (e.g. TCP) • Identification supplied by that layer • Data length • Length of user data in octets

42. IP Fragmentation (2) • Offset • Position of fragment of user data in original datagram • In multiples of 64 bits (8 octets) • More flag • Indicates that this is not the last fragment

43. Fragmentation Example

44. Dealing with Failure • Re-assembly may fail if some fragments get lost • Need to detect failure • Re-assembly time out • Assigned to first fragment to arrive • If timeout expires before all fragments arrive, discard partial data • Use packet lifetime (time to live in IP) • If time to live runs out, kill partial data

45. Error Control • Not guaranteed delivery • Router should attempt to inform source if packet discarded • e.g. for time to live expiring • Source may modify transmission strategy • May inform high layer protocol • Datagram identification needed • (Look up ICMP)

46. Flow Control • Allows routers and/or stations to limit rate of incoming data • Limited in connectionless systems • Send flow control packets • Requesting reduced flow • e.g. ICMP

47. Internet Protocol (IP) Version 4 • Part of TCP/IP • Used by the Internet • Specifies interface with higher layer • e.g. TCP • Specifies protocol format and mechanisms • RFC 791 • Get it and study it! • www.rfc-editor.org • Will (eventually) be replaced by IPv6 (see later)

48. IP Services • Primitives • Functions to be performed • Form of primitive implementation dependent • e.g. subroutine call • Send • Request transmission of data unit • Deliver • Notify user of arrival of data unit • Parameters • Used to pass data and control info

49. Parameters (1) • Source address • Destination address • Protocol • Recipient e.g. TCP • Type of Service • Specify treatment of data unit during transmission through networks • Identification • Source, destination address and user protocol • Uniquely identifies PDU • Needed for re-assembly and error reporting • Send only

50. Parameters (2) • Don’t fragment indicator • Can IP fragment data • If not, may not be possible to deliver • Send only • Time to live • Send only • Data length • Option data • User data